in fact, what marie does is he takes, through all sorts of data points, mostly from the senses but all sorts of other data points, he describes belmont, massachusetts, in 1960 and compares it to fishtown, which is a blue-collar community inside urban philadelphia. and he takes out all a minority elements, the data points and these numbers, and basically looks at white america in 1960, an upper-middle-class belmont, massachusetts, and compares it to working class, middle class philadelphia, and then sees what happens over the last 80 years. and what happens is tragic for our country. belmont, 50 years later, has been pretty good. income levels and returns are slightly up. outcomes as relates to high school graduation and college graduations are extraordinarily good. crime rates were low, and they actually got lower. families are intact. church participation, civic participation, all of the indicators that one would suggest traditionally at least in our country are the indicators of a healthy kind of community. belmont is doing quite well. fishtown, on the other hand, which was the gaps